[9fans] libbio and CR-LF

[Saroj Mahapatra <saroj@optonline.net>]

I have been thinking about adapting libbio for Windows platform. There
are basically two approaches. One can remove CR-LF when reading from
the file, or one can keep the CR-LF and Bget can return a '\n' when it
sees CR-LF. Neither approach is perfect. In the first case, file
offset + icount is messed up. In the second case, Bunget will have to
change '\n' to CR-LF. It (Bunget) still can not handle mixed line
terminators 'CR-LF' and CR (See 'getcsv' in "Practice Of Programming"
for an example). Leaving the handling of CR-LF to the application
programs is one option (though not very pleasing). Still a different
approach is to use programs like dos2unix and unix2dos. But if you are
dealing with a network protocol like http or New York Stock Exchange
CMS format messages, dos2unix and unix2dos do not help. What do guys
here think about this?

Thanks,
Saroj Mahapatra